School bus involved in head-on crash with SUV in Blackstone
BLACKSTONE - Some Blackstone elementary school students were taken to the hospital as a precaution after the school bus they were on was involved in a crash.
Third grader Max McCann was one of the students from the Kennedy School on the bus Thursday afternoon. "It doesn't hurt anymore," he told WBZ at his home Thursday night. "I felt scared because I just thought that the bus driver stopped but then I went a little bit too forward and then it felt weird."
An SUV was crushed after it collided with the bus full of kids at the intersection of Mendon and Main Streets.
Parents were waiting at the bus stop nearby. "After two or three ambulances went by, I was like what the hell is going on," said parent Dale McCann.
They ran to the scene, eager to see if their kids were OK. SkyEye was there as a young girl was loaded onto a stretcher. That vision is what made Max's dad panic.
"We could see it but we couldn't tell if it was our kids and then a little girl from Max's bus stop, the sweetest, nicest little girl, you saw her on a stretcher and her hand was all wrapped and I was like oh my God," Dale McCann said.
Max and his classmates were scared, but OK. "Some kids were crying," he said.
A handful of students went to the hospital just to get checked out, but there were no major injuries. The driver of the SUV was also taken to the hospital.
Witnesses say cars often speed down the road and they'd love to see it somehow made safer. Still, parents like Dale McCann are just relieved everyone made it home safely.
"Yeah, when they said no one was seriously hurt, that was a big weight off your shoulders but still you don't know until you see your kid," McCann said.
Max said he will take the bus to school Friday.
Police are still investigating what caused that crash.